A serious political improvement will happen in Maharashtra immediately the place the Meeting Speaker will determine the destiny of 16 insurgent Sena MLAs who’re going through the disqualification risk. Meeting Speaker Rahul Narvekar will give his verdict on disqualification underneath anti-defection regulation in opposition to 16 Shiv Sena MLAs together with CM Eknath Shinde after the Supreme Courtroom requested the Maharashtra speaker to determine on the problem in a time-bound method. Uddhav Thackeray-led faction of Shiv Sena has already reached the Supreme Courtroom within the matter.
Forward of the decision, Speaker Narvekar had met CM Shinde which irked the Sena (UBT) faction because the get together alleged match-fixing. Uddhav Thackeray mentioned on Tuesday that his get together has given an affidavit within the Supreme Courtroom objecting to the assembly held between Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Meeting Speaker Rahul Narvekar earlier than the choice on the disqualification petition. On December 15, 2023, the Supreme Courtroom had prolonged the deadline for deciding on disqualification petitions from December 31 to January 10. The Speaker could announce the decision round 4pm immediately.
Whereas the choice is necessary for each the Sena factions, it would additionally determine the destiny of CM Shinde who’s among the many 16 MLAs. If the Speaker chooses to disqualify the MLAs, CM Shinde should resign from the submit. In the meantime, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has referred to as a second assembly of his Cupboard at 10 am after a late-night assembly held yesterday.
In the meantime, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has mentioned that the choice of the Meeting Speaker within the disqualification case of MLAs may have no impression on the Shiv Sena-BJP-NCP coalition authorities and the federal government will stay secure. He mentioned that the coalition authorities is legally legitimate and hoped that the choice of the Meeting Speaker would supply justice to the MLAs.
In June 2022, Eknath Shinde and plenty of different Sena MLAs rebelled in opposition to the then Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. After this, Thackeray resigned earlier than the ground check and the coalition authorities of Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) fell. Eknath Shinde grew to become the Chief Minister in June 2022 itself with the help of the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP). The Election Fee gave the identify ‘Shiv Sena’ and ‘bow and arrow’ election image to the Shinde-led faction, whereas the Thackeray-led faction was given the identify Shiv Sena (UBT) and torch image.
Maharashtra will go to the polls round October this yr.
